Ἑλληνίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine adjective, from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ĭ́s, feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hel.lɛː.nís/ → /el.liˈnis/ → /e.liˈnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hel.lɛː.nís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)el.le̝ˈnis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /el.liˈnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /el.liˈnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.liˈnis/

Noun

Ἑλληνῐ́ς • (Hellēnĭ́s) f (genitive Ἑλληνῐ́δος); third declension

1. A Greek woman

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Ἑλληνῐ́ς; τῆς Ἑλληνῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Ἑλληνῐ́ς hē Hellēnĭ́s	τὼ Ἑλληνῐ́δε tṑ Hellēnĭ́de	αἱ Ἑλληνῐ́δες hai Hellēnĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς Ἑλληνῐ́δος tês Hellēnĭ́dos	τοῖν Ἑλληνῐ́δοιν toîn Hellēnĭ́doin	τῶν Ἑλληνῐ́δων tôn Hellēnĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ Ἑλληνῐ́δῐ têi Hellēnĭ́dĭ	τοῖν Ἑλληνῐ́δοιν toîn Hellēnĭ́doin	ταῖς Ἑλληνῐ́σῐ / Ἑλληνῐ́σῐν taîs Hellēnĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν Ἑλληνῐ́δᾰ tḕn Hellēnĭ́dă	τὼ Ἑλληνῐ́δε tṑ Hellēnĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς Ἑλληνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s Hellēnĭ́dăs
Vocative	Ἑλληνῐ́ς Hellēnĭ́s	Ἑλληνῐ́δε Hellēnĭ́de	Ἑλληνῐ́δες Hellēnĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “Ἑλληνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἑλληνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Ἑλληνίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1674 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • greece idem, page 372.